Time recorder



C. E. LARRABEE.

TIME RECORDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY-29,1920.

Patented Jan. '10, 1922.

5 SHEETSSHEET I.

awe whoa m 010% @513 Q C. E. LARRABEE. IIME RECORDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. 1920.

1,403;040, Patented Jan. 10,1922.

5 SHEETS-SHEET- 2.

f 351 541 @bboww 135 C. E. LARRABEE.

TIME RECORDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. I920.

1,403,040. Pateiited Jan.

0, 1922. 5 SHEETS-SHEET 3- Y L EEEFI 7 22 Snow 6oz C. E. LARRABEE. TIME RECORDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1920.

1,403,040, Patented Jan; 10 i 2.

0 13 B9,; 8 I A 30 3 #45 ig, 1 v v 17/ i w ow. 29 i m 9% 3% 4 m y c. E. LARRABEE.

TIME RECORDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29;]920.

1,403,040. Patented Jan. 10,1922.

Z 8 5 SHEETSSHEET 5.

v O I Z9 W Y 55 25 g g amen-fez Q I 28 7,436 -M O ablioz na I 0 M L y 1 M UNITED STATES CLINTON LARRAIBEE, OF BINGHAMTON,

PATENT OFFICE.

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE INTERNA- TIONAL TIME RECORDING COMPANY OF NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TIME RECORDER.

Application filed May 29,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON E. LARRA- BEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in the county ofBroome and State of New York, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Time Recorders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In workmens time recording machines as heretofore manufactured by the owners of the present invention, a timing wheel driven by clock work carries a number of stops that on the rotation of said wheel close electric circuits that operate to'shift the position of the holder for a workmans time card so that when a card is inserted and the machine operated to print the record of the time of such operation, the printing will be upon that part of the card which is set apart for such record. For example, a man going to work desires to have printed on his card his morning in time in the space allotted for such a record. On quitting work his noon out time should be printed in another'coL umn or on another space on his card which is allotted for that record, so that when the card, at the end of the week, is passed in the office force may tell at a glance at the card Whether the workman kept regular and full hours or whether and how much he is to be charged with lost time.

Thus in such machines the position of a card, whenever it may be inserted in the recorder, is determined by clock work and independently of the control of the workman, but for various reasons, including the complicated mechanism which it is necessary to provide for such operation, it is or may be desirable to transfer the responsibilty of printing the records in their proper places to the workman himself, and for this purpose I have devised and designed a means which may be substituted for the timing wheel, and which, in general terms, comprises a series of keys designated to correspond with the several periods into which the workin day is divided, and which are designed told he prints his card,.and which will set the machine so that it will print on the proper space the record of the time of operation.

In other words, if a workman at any period of the day, say going outto dinner, prints his card, he pushes 1n the key marked e depressed by a workman when Specification 01 Letters Patent. Patented Jan, 10, 1922 1920. Serial No. 385,104.

Noon out after inserting his card in the holder, and such depression operates to shift the card holder or the printing mechanisms to a position where the noon out time record will be printed on said card in the space allotted for such record.

The invention, subject of my present application, resides in the means which I have now devised for accomplishing this object, and this means is illustrated in detail in the accompanying drawings to which reference ma now be made.

ig. 1 is a view in front elevation of the complete machine, the enclosing case being in section.

Fig. 2 is a same machine in side elevation a u the enclosing case being in section.

Fig. 3 is a detail view in elevation of the key controlling parts of the machine.

ig. 4 is a top plan view of the same parts.

Figs. 5 and 6 are vertical sectional views of the same parts.

Fig. 7 is a detail of this mechanism mainly in elevation.

Fig. 8 is a front elevation of a modification of Fig. 3.

Fig. 9 is a side view of the same.

FigsflO and 11 are details of portions of the recording machine.

The machine in its general construction is well known in the art and requires but little description. It comprises a suitable supporting frame in a casing 1, above which frame is a timing wheel 2. A card chute or holder 3 is mounted to travel across the plane of movement of a printing hammer 4 and in front of an inking ribbon 5 carried by spools 6. These parts are common to all machines of this class.

In the forward part of the machine are disposed a series of keys 7, the number being arbitrary, but for practical purposes six are desirable. These keys or the rods upon which they are mounted, are properly guided and are pivoted to one arm of a series of right angle leversS pivoted in the frame at 9. The key bars or rods have lateral extensions 10 at their lower ends, which lie over a cross bar 11 carried by pivoted side bell cranklevers 12 pivoted at 13, and when any key is depressed the levers 12 are rocked and swing bar or pin 1%, carried thereby against one of two normally separated spring contacts l5, and thereby close the circuit to a driving motor 16which is "adapted and designed to make one complete revolution for each closure of the circuit.

By the depression of a key 7 the lever 1s alsorocked on its pivot 9, and a projection 17 on said lever is thereby forced out through a slot or perforation in a fixed plate 18, and

i I eccentric pin 23 that engages with a slot'in an arm 24 pivoted to the frame at 25, and.

this arm is therefore rocked by the rotation of the disk 22;

The arm 24: is connected by a link 26 with a lever 27 pivoted at 28, and said lever 271s connected by a link 29 with a plate 30, pivoted to the frame at 31. Hence when lever 27 is depressed plate 30 isrocked about its pivotal point. The plate 30 has a toe or projection 32, which lies over a flat bar 33 of the peculiar shape shown in Figs. 1 and 3,

and this bar is pivoted at 34: to a lever 35 pivoted at 36 and connected at its other end to the bar or frame 37 attached to the sliding card chute or holder 3. The bar 33 is held up by a spring 38 one end of which is attached to the lever 35. 1

The toes or projections 1-7 on levers 8 are brought by the depression of the keys into the plane of the bar 33 and from the above described construction it results that when a key is depressed the bar 33 is depressed by the toe 32 until the inclined edge 39 is brought against-that projection 17 which hasbeen brought into its plane by a key whereupon the bar is moved to the right, Fig. 3, until such projection sliding over the inclined edge reaches the highest point of such incline.

and the card chute or holder is moved to a position corresponding to thekey depressed, before the printing hammer 4 is operated to take the impression. Whatever key a workman, therefore, may depress will move" the card holder and print the time on the part or column ofthecard which is allotted to relevers 43 pivoted at 41 which carry a cross bar 15, so that when the levers and crossbar are moved, as set forth, the said cross bar By this lateral movement ofthe bar 33 the lever 35 is swung to the right" to the particular key operated.

comes in contact with the spring catch levers 19, and thereby rocks the same to unlatch any lever 8 which may be engaged and thus releases the latter, so' that all parts are restored after every operation to their normal positions. I

The invention is not dependent upon the specific means employed to shift the card holder, as others may be used. For example, in Fig. 8 the bar 5.1, corresponding to bar 33, is a straight bar properly guided, as is also bar 33, and pivotally connected to the lever 35, in this case acted upon by a relatively stout spiral spring 52. The bar 51 has a shoulder 53, and is drawn to the right by the r so lever 35 until such shoulder strikes the projection 1-7 that has been set by the depression of a key. i

The lever 35 is moved by a bell crank lever 54 which is connected with the lever 27 by a link 55 which lever 54 is connected with a lever 56 pivoted at 36 and which normally holds the lever 35 to the left. When the motor turns lever 27 is depressed, lever 56is' swung its; full stroke tothe right, and

right until stopped by one of the projec-- t1ons 17.

In this modification the link 29 rocks a plate 30, but the toe on this plate enters a tooth or notch 56 in the upper edge of the'bar 51 and locks the bar inplace while the printingis being done. Y V

In practice the lever 27 has a handle or knob "57 and the link 26 is slotted for the re- V ception of the pin that' connects it with the arm 24, so that the machine may be worked by hand to print instead of by the motor.

Other parts of the machine than those, herein described areshown but they are all well known in the art. and in common use. They therefore call for no detailed description. The invention as Ihavedescribed-it is notlimited to the special: means used for 1 carrying out herein ShOl/VIL' The. essential feature of the invention is the use of hand operated'keys which shall by their. depression or operation determine the pointon a workmans card where agiven record is to be printed or'impi'essed. .This may involve movement of the card, of its holder,,or of the printing means, and any or all of them are included in the invention. V 7

What I now claim is;

1. In a workmans time recorder, the combination, with aeard holder and a timeprinting mechanism, of a series of keys correspondingto the periods into which a. working day is divided, and means controlled by such keys for adjustingthe relative position of thecard holder and printing mechanism, whereby the printing of a time will be in that portion of the card which corresponds 2. In a workmans time recorder, the combination with a movable card holder and a' time printing mechanism, of a series of keys corresponding to the periods into which a working day is divided, and means controlled by such keys for shifting the card holder so that the time will be printed thereon in a space corresponding to the particular key operated.

8. In a workmans time recorder, the combination with a card holder adapted to be moved transversely, a time controlled printing mechanism and a printing hammer, of a series of keys corresponding to the periods into which a working day is divided, means controlled by the motive power applied for operating the machine for shifting the card holder and means controlled by the keys for determining the extent of such movement.

4- In a workmans time recorder, the combination with a transversely movable card holder and means for printing time on cards therein, of power operated means for shifting the card holder, a series of keys corresponding to the periods into which a working day is divided, a series of stops adapted to be set by the operation of said keys, and means attached to the card holder adapted to be engaged and arrested by the set stops, whereby the card holder will be moved to an extent determined by the particular key operated.

5. In a workmans time recorder, the combination with a transversely movable card holder, and means for printing the time on cards therein, of a series of keys corresponding to the periods into which a working day is divided, stops adapted to be set by the depression of the keys, latches for looking a depressed key, a bar connected with the movable carrier and formed to be engaged by a depressed stop and means for moving said bar under the control of the means for operating the machine.

In testimony whereof I hereto aflix my signature.

CLINTON E. LARRABEE. 

